Glenn Barker
@rotherwrites.bsky.social
[My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
5/ You will now see it in your list of 'feeds' or tabs, and also as a separate tab heading (on the far right).
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
5/ You will now see it in your list of 'feeds' or tabs, and also as a separate tab heading (on the far right).
4/ Scroll down to 'Discover New Feeds' and type the hashtag you want to follow. Here it is '#vss365', but you could also type '#PoemsAbout' for example.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
4/ Scroll down to 'Discover New Feeds' and type the hashtag you want to follow. Here it is '#vss365', but you could also type '#PoemsAbout' for example.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
3/ Click on 'Feeds' to show the list and order of your current tabs (aka feeds)
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
3/ Click on 'Feeds' to show the list and order of your current tabs (aka feeds)
2/ Swipe right once more to reveal the main Bluesky menu
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
2/ Swipe right once more to reveal the main Bluesky menu
Not able to find your fellow poets' posts? Here is one way to set up tabs to follow favourite hashtags and poetry communities:
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Not able to find your fellow poets' posts? Here is one way to set up tabs to follow favourite hashtags and poetry communities:
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
5/ You will now see it in your list of 'feeds' or tabs, and also as a separate tab heading (on the far right).
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
5/ You will now see it in your list of 'feeds' or tabs, and also as a separate tab heading (on the far right).
4/ Scroll down to 'Discover New Feeds' and type the hashtag you want to follow. Here it is '#vss365', but you could also type '#PoemsAbout' for example.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
4/ Scroll down to 'Discover New Feeds' and type the hashtag you want to follow. Here it is '#vss365', but you could also type '#PoemsAbout' for example.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
Click on 'Pin Feed' to add it as a new tab.
3/ Click on 'Feeds' to show the list and order of your current tabs (aka feeds)
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
3/ Click on 'Feeds' to show the list and order of your current tabs (aka feeds)
2/ Swipe right once more to reveal the main Bluesky menu
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
2/ Swipe right once more to reveal the main Bluesky menu
OK. Here we go...
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
OK. Here we go...
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
It's Friday, it's not Crackerjack, but it is time for another episode of #PoemsAbout. A difficult theme this week with #DogTags, and a natural leaning towards the military. I have no idea if this one works.
Join in the conversation; post, like, comment and repost. 📬
Join in the conversation; post, like, comment and repost. 📬
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It's Friday, it's not Crackerjack, but it is time for another episode of #PoemsAbout. A difficult theme this week with #DogTags, and a natural leaning towards the military. I have no idea if this one works.
Join in the conversation; post, like, comment and repost. 📬
Join in the conversation; post, like, comment and repost. 📬
Tonight we are at... Victoria Hall Sheffield to see Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of Tchaikovsky (5th Symphony), Howard (Trombone Concerto) and Howell (Three Divertissements). Baton down beat at 7.30pm. And there's a harp!
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Tonight we are at... Victoria Hall Sheffield to see Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of Tchaikovsky (5th Symphony), Howard (Trombone Concerto) and Howell (Three Divertissements). Baton down beat at 7.30pm. And there's a harp!
Hello everyone for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout.
Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible.
We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥
Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible.
We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hello everyone for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout.
Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible.
We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥
Two Remembrance ceremonies and a Remembrance Day poetry group have knocked the harshness out of me. #Desire has taken me back to writing the intangible.
We're on autopilot; keep posting, liking, commenting and reposting. 🔥
What a difference a day makes...in the life of a shaggy inkcap, or lawyers wig (here with its two junior acolytes).
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What a difference a day makes...in the life of a shaggy inkcap, or lawyers wig (here with its two junior acolytes).
In the garden this morning, Coprinus comatus, commonly known as the shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane. The barrister and their two articled clerks?
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In the garden this morning, Coprinus comatus, commonly known as the shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig, or shaggy mane. The barrister and their two articled clerks?
Echoing that theme of mannequin, these three have most definitely flat-lined for me. The colour has completely drained out of them.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Echoing that theme of mannequin, these three have most definitely flat-lined for me. The colour has completely drained out of them.
Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them.
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them.
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯
A guiding thought Alan, from #PoemsAbout as it happens.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A guiding thought Alan, from #PoemsAbout as it happens.
Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's most difficult of prompts for #PoemsAbout. There was only one way I could respond to #Blood given my dread of all this season expects and imposes.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's most difficult of prompts for #PoemsAbout. There was only one way I could respond to #Blood given my dread of all this season expects and imposes.
I've stepped into the reading of comfortable fiction "neither literary nor too commercial".
Persephone Books, Bath, is a publisher of "largely forgotten 20th century novels by (mostly) women writers".
This week I'm reading...'Someone at a Distance' by Dorothy Whipple, ordered from Read, Holmfirth.
Persephone Books, Bath, is a publisher of "largely forgotten 20th century novels by (mostly) women writers".
This week I'm reading...'Someone at a Distance' by Dorothy Whipple, ordered from Read, Holmfirth.
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I've stepped into the reading of comfortable fiction "neither literary nor too commercial".
Persephone Books, Bath, is a publisher of "largely forgotten 20th century novels by (mostly) women writers".
This week I'm reading...'Someone at a Distance' by Dorothy Whipple, ordered from Read, Holmfirth.
Persephone Books, Bath, is a publisher of "largely forgotten 20th century novels by (mostly) women writers".
This week I'm reading...'Someone at a Distance' by Dorothy Whipple, ordered from Read, Holmfirth.
Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and another Friday of #PoemsAbout. And hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social.
This week I #BurnForTheCamera with a slightly different format; the emdash found me.
This week I #BurnForTheCamera with a slightly different format; the emdash found me.
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and another Friday of #PoemsAbout. And hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social.
This week I #BurnForTheCamera with a slightly different format; the emdash found me.
This week I #BurnForTheCamera with a slightly different format; the emdash found me.
Just been reading this, and being an OU textbook it's full of definitions, hence my reading of your poem with a studied eye. 😊
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Just been reading this, and being an OU textbook it's full of definitions, hence my reading of your poem with a studied eye. 😊
...and if you haven't seen it already Denra, here's that auto-writing!
Thank you; I hadn't thought of reading it out loud. Looking at it again, it feels like a poem of two halves: hard to soft, or maybe reshaping the bees breaks. 💚
Thank you; I hadn't thought of reading it out loud. Looking at it again, it feels like a poem of two halves: hard to soft, or maybe reshaping the bees breaks. 💚
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
...and if you haven't seen it already Denra, here's that auto-writing!
Thank you; I hadn't thought of reading it out loud. Looking at it again, it feels like a poem of two halves: hard to soft, or maybe reshaping the bees breaks. 💚
Thank you; I hadn't thought of reading it out loud. Looking at it again, it feels like a poem of two halves: hard to soft, or maybe reshaping the bees breaks. 💚
Here is that 'flow in the dark' Jihn that got me started. Interpreting the middle jumble was a challenge. Let's hear it for free writing, but with a stinger light perhaps?
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Here is that 'flow in the dark' Jihn that got me started. Interpreting the middle jumble was a challenge. Let's hear it for free writing, but with a stinger light perhaps?
With thanks to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social, our guest host for this week's #PoemsAbout. I did struggle to #BreakTheMould until dawn yesterday when a page of illiterate auto-writing in the dark got me somewhere...
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
With thanks to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social, our guest host for this week's #PoemsAbout. I did struggle to #BreakTheMould until dawn yesterday when a page of illiterate auto-writing in the dark got me somewhere...